{"id":24443,"date":"2025-03-06T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/girl-10-killed-by-car-on-kendal-football-pitch-named\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:06:42","slug":"girl-10-killed-by-car-on-kendal-football-pitch-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/girl-10-killed-by-car-on-kendal-football-pitch-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 10, killed by car on Kendal football pitch named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">A girl who died when she was hit by a car which crashed on to a pitch where she was playing football has been named.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Poppy Atkinson, 10, was fatally struck by the vehicle while attending a training session at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria on Wednesday evening.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Her family described her as the &#8220;focal point of their lives&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">She was determined to be a professional footballer and play for Manchester United, they said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3vw3dlgg6vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A girl who died when she was hit by a car which crashed on to a pitch where she was playing football has been named. Poppy Atkinson, 10, was fatally struck by the vehicle while attending a training session at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria on Wednesday evening. Her family described her as the &#8220;focal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[558,403,1016,8938,325,1110,7061],"class_list":["post-24443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-car","tag-football","tag-girl","tag-kendal","tag-killed","tag-named","tag-pitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24445,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions\/24445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}